"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

Time, Forget, Quick

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"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Forget your past, live for the present day."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"Time is the longest distance between two places."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport."

Julius Boros, American Athlete

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"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

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"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."

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"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."

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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."

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